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In 1997, Joel Myrick, then an assistant principal at a Mississippi high school, used his personal pistol, which he kept in his truck, to stop a 16-year-old school shooter with a rifle. Even Myrick—one of the extremely rare cases of an armed teacher intervening in a school shooting—says that arming…

Our people are searching for new leadership, and progressive Democratic Latinas are a viable option.

Holly is alive and well, but who killed her parents?

Federal law requires handgun owners to be at least 21 years old. That's not the case for AR-15s.

‘He’s an elder statesman of bullshit.’

In South Texas, an international military apparatus lords over Latinos.

In ‘Corrections in Ink,’ star criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger skillfully tells the story of her own unusual life.

The organizer, groundbreaking Austin policymaker, and congressional nominee plans to be the House’s ‘most pro-labor’ member.

“The rot runs deep in this institution.”

Sweltering temperatures imperil unsheltered residents, and community resources aren’t a given.

The Uvalde shooting shows how little of his legal training he remembers.